Never forget that Loki is a god with a profoundly deep love and adoration for humanity.
He loves our stories, our endless jokes, our theatrics, our inventiveness, our creativity, our laughter, our small silly moments, our passion, our eagerness, our quirks, our ballsy antics, our spectrum of emotions and personality, our songs, and our spirit.
As a god who loves these things, he embodies them. It’s written in the stories that Loki is a natural entertainer, bringing laughter to the hardest hearts and humor to the darkest times.
And, my friends, these are dark times.
Lost innocence.
Anyways Naoto Shirogane is transgender because he was willing to let his shadow magically change his sex
Naoto Shirogane is transgender because his story focuses heavily on gender dysphoria
Naoto Shirogane is transgender because he openly expressed his desire to be born as a man.
Naoto Shirogane is transgender because his shadow deals with internalized transphobia and once he voices his self doubt (his shadow calling himself "really a girl") no one in the group respects Naoto's preferred pronouns, immediately switching to she/her, and never give him a chance to truly explain himself, instead opting to push him to "accept that he's a woman"
Naoto Shirogane was afraid of being seen as a child and (because of his dysphoria) as a girl, and him being treated with misdirected misogyny in the past does not mean he was really a girl all along. He went through great lengths to be seen as a boy (more than a cis woman ever would, especially to the point of extremely dangerous chest binding), and if he still wasn't taken seriously it was because he was and is a child (15)
Naoto's romance route is disgusting as to unlock it you must push your views for him to be a woman on him when he is expressing his doubts about his identity.
Things like this do NOT happen on accident. ATLUS knew what they were doing.
Atlus is complicit with the transphobic narrative of Naoto Shirogane. It doesnt matter if they were TRYING to address misogyny in Japanese workplaces what they actually DID was write a trans man who is forced to ignore his true feelings for the comfort of everyone else around him, and imply that trans men are really just struggling with internalized misogyny and that is extremely transphobic.
I am under no obligation to accept canon in my own fan works or in my own fandom space. Im under no obligation to interact with people who DO.
The Naoto post i made a month ago now serves as a giant blocklist for me and every other transmasc persona4 fan.
If you can't handle a trans headcanon you don't need to interact with me. Block me and move on like an adult.
DO NOT INTERACT OR ARGUE WITH ME OR THIS POST IF YOU CALL NAOTO A WOMAN. THIS IS NOT AN INVITATION. I GENUINELY HATE YOU AND DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH YOUR CIS/BOOTLICKING NONSENSE.
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I LOVE IT can i use it???
ALSO I made a bisexual demiromantic flag in pretty colors because I haven’t seen any fun ones for them yet :’D free to use as long as you credit me!
Dont be worry!! Its happended to me sometimes and he will come back at some point! Im sure 😉💙
Loki disappeared in november. Can't feel his presence anymore, should i be worried?
This issue made me to angry to sleep so many nights... i feel the same
Not to get into anime gender discourse, but arguing about an anime character’s gender, like Chihiro from Danganronpa or Naoto from Persona, is entirely pointless considering the people who wrote them clearly didn’t, and probably don’t, acknowledge trans people at all, like, in general. Its very clear why the confusion of how to interpret their gender comes up, as the stories resonate very heavily with some trans people, but are ultimately denied representation because the writers just didn’t give enough of a shit to think of transgender people while creating a plotline explicitly about one’s connection with their gender, and instead of actually going somewhere constructive and giving good representation, boomerang right into “They actually fuckin’ love being their AGAB, and all of that questioning and shit was pointless, maybe at most meant to have a message about sexism or some shit.” And especially in the case of Naoto, its very clear that he’s a trans man, to the point where up until the game makes it very clear he’s a cis woman you have to actively try to think he’s not trangender (Like, his shadow’s whole fucking deal was to physically change his own body so he could be a cis man, its literally right there.) Oh course, the writers then decide to go down a painfully familiar “Oh, no, its just because the workforce they wish to be apart of is sexist towards women and no other reason for them to have issues with their gender!” (See, how people describe people like James Barry) which is just a very regressive view on this matter. So like, it gets stuck at this point where canonically, these characters are cis but are written very much as transgender, and while headcanons are great and all, Naoto will only ever be acknowledged as a cis woman, Chihiro will only ever be considered a cis man, and the writers behind them never have to or want to even think about the implications of these characters and how much it just hurts to not be represented in characters who could be very good pieces of representation if the writers gave half of a rat’s shit about transgender people.
In short: Media written about implicatively transgender characters will always suck when written by people who don’t care about transgender people and any discourse about what gender they are is null and void because of this.
I’m sure tons of people have made this exact take but its 4 am and I’m too angry to sleep.
AAAAA LOVE IT SO SO MUCH
it's amber day! happy birthday to our dearest outrider🐰💖
Fictive culture is being asexual (Both in source and in system.), and everyone saying "They can't date because they're ace." and "They're ace! Stop shipping them!".
When in reality, asexuals can date, aromantics can date, aroaces can date, anyone on the a-spec can date.
The fandom is just annoying.
(An Alastor fictive.)
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And a spiritspouse and also lokean~
Am currently looking for more Lokean or Rokkatru based blogs to follow. So if you worship or post about Loki or any of the Rokkr, please like and reblog this so I can follow you. Also it’d be much appreciated if you were tolerant of Godspouses and consorts, considering I am one. I don’t care how big or little your blog is. Just looking for more like-minded people to follow and interact with.
Oh, yes
Loki doesn't tear you down and build you back up.
Loki doesn't force you into anything.
Loki tests you.
Loki sees what you can handle.
He doesn't catch you when you fall, but he helps you back up.
He stays with you when you just want to curl up and cry.
Not speaking, just being there.
He cheers you on when you're able to stand up again.
Loki grabs you by the hand and tells you a story.
And he helps you forward.
No, he doesn't tear you down.
He helps you up after you've fallen. He helps you to grow.
And he guides you as you rebuild your world after it's all come apart. Stronger and better.
And if that's what they mean when they say I'm inviting chaos into my life
Then come on in, Loki.
Let's do this together.